Gloomy Sunday

Paroles

Sunday is gloomy
the hours are slumberless
dearest, the shadows
I live with are numberless

Little white flowers
will never awaken you
not where the dark coach
of sorrow has taken you

Angels have no thought
of ever returning you
would they be angry
if I thought of joining you ?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday
with shadows I spend it all
my heart and I
have decided to end it all

Soon there’ll be prayers
and candles are lit I know
let them not weep
let them know that I’m glad to go

Death is no dream
for in death I’m caressing you
with the last breath of my soul
I’ll be blessing you

Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
in the deep of my heart here

Darling, I hope
that my dream hasn’t haunted you
my heart is telling you
how much I wanted you

Gloomy Sunday

Infos

Interprété live au Walden Woods Benefit à Los Angeles le 16 avril 1998, et au mémorial d’Alexander McQueen le 20 septembre 2010 en la cathédrale St Paul.

À propos de la Chanson

I didn’t realise ‘Gloomy Sunday’ wasn’t one of their tunes [The Associates] until I was invited to do a benefit concert with Joni Mitchell in California in 1997. I turned up at the rehearsal and couldn’t believe it when the orchestra played this really straight jazz version without the outrageous key change in the middle. I tried protesting that they were missing out the best part of the song, then it dawned on me that the Associates’ version was obviously a cover. I was disappointed because the original isn’t half as challenging.
Source : Préface du livre The Glamour Chase - The Maverick Life of Billy MacKenzie" par Tom Doyle.